Cross-border trading in electricity would naturally benefit India

October 2018

A veteran of India's energy sector, Prof Kirit Parikh chaired the committee that submitted the 2013 groundbreaking report on pricing methodology for ...

Tags: Kirit Parikh, LPG, PDS kerosene, Diesel, LED bulbs, IRADe, OALP, Hydel power, Electricity, Rooftop solar, GSEB, Vikram Sarabhai, Programme Analysis Group, PV panels, Coal-based plants

IOCL to expand Paradip-Haldia-Durgapur LPG pipeline

August 2018

The Paradip-Balasore section of the PHDPL is already operational for delivery of LPG to IOCL’s bottling plant in Balasore....

Tags: IOCL, Oil, LPG pipeline, Construction

Budget Reactions | Miscellaneous

February 2018

This is a Budget for ‘New India’; it is an aspirational Budget that will help stimulate the market. Excise duty on petroleum products has been readju...

Tags: Budget, New India, LPG connections, Sunil Kant Munjal, MSME, Mudra scheme, infrastructure projects, Sumit Joshi, Philips Lighting India, Mehernosh Pithawalla, Godrej Security Solutions, Indian Railways Station Development, CCTVs, Safety First, KEF Holdings

Reforming India's Oil & Gas Sector

September 2017

Avery colourful legend has it that during the construction of the railway line from Dibrugarh to Margherita by Assam Railways & Trading Co (AR&TC) in...

Tags: PPAC, Assam Railways & Trading Co, ONGC, Deepak Mahurkar, PwC India, Kirit Parikh, IRADe, Nitin Prasad, Shell Companies, HELP, DSF, OLAP, PSC, LPG, PPAC

India Needs to be Realistic on the Exploration Front

September 2017

Speaking exclusively to INFRASTRUCTURE TODAY, Prof Kirit Parikh, Chairman Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe) and author of the se...

Tags: Kirit Parikh, IRADe, LPG, PDS, Infrastructure, EoI, OALP, Petroleum, Natural Gas, Investment, Solar, Wind, Rosneft, Sinopec, ONGC

BIG Data The New Oil

July 2017

The ability to harness and store large volumes of data to enable future services and add extensions to current services to improve can only be achiev...

Tags: Clive Humby, Tesco Clubcard, Gautam Balakrishnan, Tata Projects, PPP, DMIC, Water, Wastewater, Recycled water, Storm water, Power, ICT, SAARC, GIS, LDB

We will invest Rs.7,000 crore in port expansion

May 2017

We have designed this port for the future, keeping in mind the volumes of inbound and outbound trade (that) is likely to happen. Our plan is to bring...

Tags: JSW Group, Jaigarh Port, LNG, LPG, Liquid cargo, Roads, Rail infrastructure, Government of Maharashtra, Konkan Railway, JSW Infrastructure

L and T arm bags Rs.1,100 crore contract

March 2017

Larsen & Toubro Hydrocarbon Engineering has said that it has bagged orders worth Rs 1,100 crore from IOC for its Bongaigaon refinery in Assam....

Tags: Larsen and Toubro Hydrocarbon Engineering, IOC Indane Maximisation project, FCU, EPC, LPG treatment, Bongaigaon refinery